A short horror homage set in paradise. From the collection "Fragments Of Ruin."A short horror homage set in paradise. A group of researchers from Miskatonic University have traveled to the Caribbean to find answers. Unfortunately, they find them. (A short story from the collection "Fragments Of Ruin.")

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A collection of seventy seven poems written over the span of seven thoughtful and youthful years.A Poem

Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.

Naomi Novik ended her acclaimed, beloved nine-volume Temeraire series last year with a stunning finale, League of Dragons. Fans missing their favorite series can now rejoice: Novik returns with an original Temeraire collection as unique as the world she has created, with each tale inspired by an accompanying piece of fan art. Fully cloth bound hardcover copies

Jud Starver is doing all he can to keep his family safe. They've run out of supplies in their barricaded quarters making an escape to a safe zone necessary. Unfortunately the undead on the other end of the door have a different plan in mind.This zombie short is a spin-off stemming from the full length tale Guns, Booze & Zombies.It is Christmas 1914. As Europe descends further into the Great War, Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from his school. He returns to the sleepy English village of Alton. It is here that he meets the mysterious traveler, Bailey - a master storyteller who fills the boy's head with stories of King Arthur's time. The more Christopher hears, the more he suspects that Bailey's stories are more than just simple myths. Soon, Christoper is a pawn in a game that has been playing out for centuries....

Teen loner James Sauerbaugh wants nothing more than a chance to get his act together, when the Forces That Be land him in a Shriner band as a substitute. James discovers this band of decrepit drunks play circus screamers flawlessly. An ancient trombonist helps him develop an appreciation of the old coots and their Shriner mission. A touching, fun book that links generations.Circuses and parades go wildly awry when James Sauerbaugh joins a band of Shriners as a substitute trombonist. It turns out the band members are ancient and bombed out of their minds, but James comes to relish the friendships and wild fun on the bus and on parade floats. When Moses Grand, a fellow trombonist, rescues him from death at the hands of a ruthless killer, the story takes an ironic twist. Nobody can have enough books with circuses in them.

In a future society that has reduced most humans to drones, a musician launches a revolution that spans worlds, but pays a high personal price.For years, hundreds of alien vessels hover over major population centres about the globe. Eventually these "Godships" become objects of worship.There are no lifeforms on board; the ships are sentient automatons.When they leave, they abduct several humans, including Gordon Blend.Gordon describes their journeys through the galaxy, debates the purpose of the Godships and the role, if any, of God.Eventually, they return to planet Earth. Because of space-time anomalies and time dilation, the planet has changed dramatically.

From Mexico’s preeminent man of letters, “a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories” (Vanity Fair) that explores the “uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures” (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.

A teenager and his friends fight to survive a supernatural disaster and the uncertainty that rises in its aftermath.For once, seventeen year old Theo Essex thought he could put aside his worries and just enjoy himself. A summer weekend at the shore. An evening with his friends. A beautiful girl in his arms. That was before the Event. Now Theo finds himself stranded in a strange new world, surrounded by death and the sea, and trapped between rival forces determined to take control of survivors like him. Facing overwhelming odds, Theo must search for the strength to escape Atlantic Island. This is book one of the exciting complete novel available now!

Come, O hesitant, Surrender to Love, And I will give you the keys to the endless treasury,Hidden in your heart.What else defines your life as experiences, Is there a place where they would not be present; Come, Take the first step to Me and I promise You'll never want to return to the land of the shadows.Come, O hesitant, Surrender to Love, And I will give you the keys to the endless treasury,Hidden in your heart.What else defines your life as experiences, Is there a place where they would not be present; Come, Take the first step to Me and I promise You'll never want to return to the land of the shadows.Look back in your life, See the shadows and the lights, See them with the eyes of the truth you mortal, Why would you give the withering spring of your life to all that which is not noble? Would you not thus come into the garden of love,To make it come alive, With your nurturing spirit of the Love that is in you?Man,Are you afraid of losing your strength, If you open your heart for your love; Are you so conquered with fear, That you speak not the words that hide nothing behind them? Have you become so rough, That you won’t give even in love to your woman, The soothing charms of the acts of love;Hear Me, They are also the chalice of your own happiness.O mortal, Think like a trader, With what price will you get another to keep for yourself! Short are your days, but shorter are your moments; The truth is, What dominates the experience, Dominates your life, Painting all the colors of these moments in your life. Why not, therefore, travel in love, Why not choose love to be your life?And you,O woman,You the carrier of all beauty,Why should you hide the beauty of your nature;Why,O Woman,Should you hide the endless river of the beauty of your heart?Life without love is like a night without stars,A forest without animals, birds and insects,A city of faceless men.But where I, the Love am,There the burdens are light,There the tears are shared,And happiness is unbound.Where I, the Love am present,There even the unknown finds a solace,And meet the ears that can hear.Here, with Me, Even though the storms rise, They always subside;Here, your lips are filled with loving kisses.Come, O hesitant, Surrender to love, And I will give you the keys to the endless treasury,Hidden in your heart.

Dan Sherman goes from a History Teacher to a Space Guardian in one day. He is transformed into one of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse.Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at turn?